PAGE FOUR The British Whig 84TH. YEAR. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1917. . INFERNO OF VIMY. lOutdid Dantes, Says the Canadian il Press Correspondent. 1] out mew . troubles: in the United | Cotiadian Headquarters fn, Frets | States, They are agitating for an patoh- is written in the depth of a uprising of their countrymen the German dugout near the crest of world over, especially in Canada, In Vimy Ridge. The battalion com- ij A the . Imander and staff, who are oceupying|y its restric-{4yo dugout, are-snatching a few { hours' sleep, after a long day of hard - gion {work upon the roads. The work of Sir Clifford "8ifton is =aid te be this sort already done is wonderful. fayoring the liberals in their attitude [The battlefield, across which railsij towards & general election gipjand roads had to be coftstructed, was|jf . o ao Sv. sor so pitted with shell "holes that, as an Clifford was against reciprocity, but oericer said, not one blade of grassy he was always a liberal] and in a na- {remaing, and there 'is not a spot} tional government would direct a de- | without either a shell-hole or ajjy partment with consumate ability. | mound thrown up by the explosions. |i} | |How any men lived in the trenches | Ii | ; AT $6.75 : i ~.. ithrough the ®ambardment whichijy . It is estimated that one week's | produced these amazing results, on operations on the western front in France has cost more in casualties what an interesting chapter it could bars the support of the officials who supply. are in sympathy with its work. As the connecting link between the city and the promontory: which tills so large a place in the military situation of Kingstdn, the old Catar- aqui bridge saw service which was associated with the names of many distinguished men in the public and military life of Canada. It showed evidence of weakness occasionally, bat structurally it was very secure, and repairs from time to time perpe- tuated its usefulness. The causeway, inaggurates a new era. in connection with the harbor of Kingston. It is the part of a great scheme, the fulfillment.of which, confeived many years ago, will make the harbor a national ode. But for the war the dredging would have no doubt been undertaken and perhaps have been completed by this time, the great wharves would have been built, and the foundations laid yerman conspirators are hatching retaliation for some of tions, * WE MEET OR BEAT, ALL CATALOGUE PRICES OVERCOATS 7 Ni 14 Wd an. grea of over two millon square |yards, is inconceivable. Dante never : ka , limagined an inferno like it. That than ten months' 'service of the first | oat nubibers: of the enemy werell ivision, This suggests that if the Ihuried in their trenches becomes evi- Success of the army is to be kept up (dent as the clearing up proceeds. the Canadian forces must beimmed- Many so buried were disinterred by fately recruited, l1ater shells; which destroyed their {J} Dark grey, small pattern, - Pinch back style, plain pin dot, two-way collar. i Sizes 34 to 46 greys, plain blues, fancy | grey mixtures, fancy brown mixtures. Sizes 33 to 39. Special values, $15.00. rabitehed Daily and Semi-Weekly by TRE SRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING 7 C0u LIMITED. , G. Bllott ...... A Guild .. SEE BIBBYS $10.00 RAIN- " COATS President | for the larger elevators. It was ag- iplace of sepulture." Director | gravati t that i Sec - Treas. gravating fo.yead. that the American po ' | To the disaster which overtook the cities on Lake Ontario were planning {German army here the ridge of Vimy |} for an increased traffic ' which the { PUBLIC OPINION fiw remain a monument of the un- deeper Welland Canal would afford. 3 [paralleled destruction of the hill, as Oswego and Charlotte, and even : some Evasion __of 2nge a Ogdensburg, seemed to be ready for | : , No Hurry After All Wigodstock Sentinel) Sneep may' graze in the trenches, SUBSCRIPTION RATES {craters and shell-holes, but months (Daily Edition) "to force & way lo Berlin, ed In city 'One year, to Unit them Wook cash oar, . your, if not id in adv year, to United States gix and three months pro rata. MONTREAL REPRESENTATIVE R Bruce Owen BRESENTATIVE R SENT A i." JORONTO 1005 Traders Bank Bldg. LC. . ts Darren STATES REPRESENTATIVE: F.R.Northrup, 226 Fifth Ave. New York F.R.Northrup, 1610 Ase'n Bldg. Chicago Attached 1s one of the best job printing offices in Canada.\ °° One One The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is Suihenticwicd by the Andit Bureau of Circulations. > NOT A WHOLESOME LESSON. At a time when Canada is being invited to engage in railway owner ship ond an insight into the stupendous S#ure of the Manitoba telephone system in the studies of Dr. Mavor, of Toronto University, under the head of "Government Telephones." Here one has a most interesting book in which the author traces the development of the tele- phone in Manitoba trom 1880, under private management, through the Bell Company, and finally through the government commission. The Bell Company expanded at a great rate. Its intevests were valued, when it sold dut, at $3,500,000, The government promised too many things, extension of lines, low- er rate. and commercial sad non- political management, rr Taccom- plished none of these thihgs. It made a guy. of the commission which it used, first as a substitute and la- ter as a scapegoat. Its crushing mis- managemént was lost sight of, some- what in the collapse of the Roblin government, and the attempt to save the situation by the appointment of a single commissioner was hopeless, An increase of rates, a bluff at reforms, and a monopoly of the business were so many unsatisfactory moves to re- cover lost ground. The general ef- fects of.the government's plunge can be summed up in a few words: The provincial obligations were doubled; the expenditure on telephones repre- sented a wil vein proportion of the governmént's expenses; the pub- lic interests were neglected; the ac- counts were kept in a manner which no expert accountant could under- stand; up to the present the province has incurred a loss of a million dol- lars, and this loss, will bo increased until the excess value of the plant has been written off and the liabilities of the concern are very 'largely reduced. The lesson is obvious and Dr. Ma- vor emphasizes it thus: "The state must relinquish all but its necessary and obvious functions. Practically all the defects whi¢h have emerged elsewhere in the management of in- dustries by state officials have made their appearance im the case of the Manitoba telephones." And further: _~ "It is possible that only by repeated and costly failures, such as the Mani- toba government telephones, will the public realize that the proper func- tion of the government is not the conduct of industries but the impar- tial su) of sthem under in- telligent laws adapted to the charac- ter and conditions of the community and the country." mL The British (foops, which inchide the Canadians, will blast their way _ through the German earthworks of France and Belgium. But it will fake time and men and 'munitions the advantage they would through the inability of Canada to undertake large expenditures during the war. But they did not count 9 upon Uncle Sam being pressed into tire conflict, and may affect the this contingency national finances of St.| the United States as well as Canada. The Brantford Expositor says that if the federal government wants a longer lease of power it should be able to-manage the war on a non- political basis and in a nondpartisan way. There is great truth in this. ~po-orkRATION CALLED FOR. The efforts of some of Bir people to bring about a good understanding | between the city and county have not succeeded very well. The spirit .of the country people has been infer- preted by Peter MeArthur, the well- known writer. He had fhe happy experience of laboring In both city and we and is now a farmer by choice of occupation, i ¥ Mr. MoAfthur attended the great mass meeting in 'Massey Hall, To- ronto, in the interest of greater pro- duction. He went to it with the idea that he would see something in the attitude of the citizens who talked agriculture that would interest him. Perhaps he would find something he could laugh at. He found, in place of that, a large concourse of people, and these were addressed by men who were unmistakably in edrnest. They had caught the message of the hour---the warnings of a diminishing food supply and a possible scarcity and dearth oP the same--and they proffered their help, whatever it was worth, on the farm in the hope that it might be effective. On the part of the citizens the de- mand is that they realige the duty of the hour and perform it, with regard to greater production. On the part of the farmer the demand is that they lay aside their suspicions, that they treat the overtures of the citi- zens in good part, and that they co- operate in giving effect in any way they ean, to the appeals of the Re- sources Committee. The citizens cannot tell the farmers what they should do, and the citizens are not trying to do this. Thef'seek to em- phazie the needs of the hour, and it is all they can do." If the farmers will not trust them to enter into a friendly alliance fom a given pur- pose so much the worse for all con- cerned. ------------------ People of the United States are taking' the Greater Production Move- ment most seriously. An army of two million men from the cities will assist the farmers in their spring and fall work. & CONSECRATED GROUND It is announced that Epgland will provide private graves for all of her overseas sons who fiave died abroad. This is highly commendable, and should be received by all the sub- jects of the empire with the great- est satisfaction. There is no more glorious place for the soldiers to leave their 'bdmes than 'fn 'the soil which has been made gacréd by the blood they have shed fm behalf of the empjre. ~ And these solis repre-J sen all classes ofthe people, and all ranks of life, Tr in gain! Imperial reorganization is appar- | ¢ labor by a great ently to be postponed till after 'the war. The Times, at all events, sug- gests that the Dominion ought to for- mulate the basis of an Imperial Con- vention for after the war, The (ity's Duty Clear. : (Toronto News) St. Catharines is taking a wise step inPlowing the land free of charge for its citizens to plant. If these and other practical steps. are immediately taken as differing local conditions de- mand, the aggregate result will be enormous) The time has come to quit talking and act. Every day lost means a/smaller yield: of grain, po- tatoes ahd other foodstuffs next aut- he outlook is grave for the For the farmer the pros- right. No matter when the ds, he is sure of profitable r his products for' several years conmfe. At the best much time wifl be required to re-establish the fertility of the soil of Europe and get it back to a normal productive basis. Altogether aside from '1one- tary returns, the people of Canada, are bound by all the considerations of patriotism and civilization to ex- pand the harvest of 1917, to the greatest possible proportions. jmzsTon EVENTS| ' 26 YEARS AGO 3 Ice formed on the 'water last night, The schooner Julia "has arrived with coal, and J. Hackett and gang is umloading it. v A. D. Reid came in from West- brook on a bicycle, a distance of seven miles, in thirty minutes. GIFT FROM SOUTH AFRICA In Recognition of Protection Afford: * ed Exports by Navy. Cape Town, South Africa, April 17.--At the South African party con- gress yesterday Hon. F. 8. Malan, minister of mines, announced that the Union government has decided to grant the Imperial Government one million pounds sterling, in re- cognition of the protection afforded by the navy, under which expo'ts from South Africa had proceeded as usual, notwithstanding the war. rmy would not prepare the soil for the plow. BONES RECALL MYSTERY Woman Dropped Out of Sight Twenty-Five Years Ago. Watertown, N.Y., April 16.--A skull and bones of a woman<belioved to be those of Mrs, Susan Woodard, who mysteriously disappeared twenty-five years ago, were turned up by a plough on the farm occupied by Fred Card, about a mile and a half southwest of Felts Mills. was believed that Mrs, Woodard had met foul play at the time 'of her dis- appearance. Suspicion pointed to a man long since dead, but no meas ures for his apprehension were ever instifuted, the evidence being insuf- ficient. , One turbulent night in the year of 1892, when a thunder storm caused all.to seek shelter, Mrs. Susan Wood- ard, a widow, aged about 30 years, mysteriously disappeared and was never heard from since.' Her two children, a little boy and a little gid, cried themselves to sleep that night and the bread which she had. left "sponging" in the pan was never "set". All indications showed that she had not contemplated leaving. RATHER WED THAN FIGUT .. Young Germans in States Seek Mar- riage Licenses Oyster Bay, N.Y., April 17.--Indi- cations that young men of Geran birth, parentage'or descent, living in the township of Oyster Bay, are finc- ing marriage an easy way to avoid fighting against (ferfhany were po! at- ed out (Oday by Charles Weeks, town clerk. He sho that four our of every five applicants for marriage licenses since the declaration of war lit * ¢ beer men of German descent. "WAKE UP, AMERICA" Lord and Lady Aberdeen .. Huge Parade. New York, April 17.--Lord and Lady Aberdeen, at the head of 2,000 British veterans:and members of the British-American War Relief, will lead the main parade in the celebra- tion of "Wake Up America Day," in this e¢ity, April 19th. In the line be- hind the former Governor-General of Canada will march 30,000, boys and to Lead i girls from the schools of New York. Random Reels «Of Shoes and Shipe and Sealing Wax, of Cabbages and Kings." THE TRAINED NURSE The trained nurse is a ministering angel who is hired to let other people sleep. " There are iwo people who have proven that the world would be bet- ter off if sleep had never been invent- ed. One of them is Thos. A. Edison and the other is the bright-eyed trained nurse who can sit up all night for a week and look as fresh as a plate of home-grown lettuce. Mr. Edison has not used any sleep to spgak of in 'his business for years, and his close friends and associates say that when he feels any coming his way he holds his head under the cold water faucet until the attack passes. When a nervous high-striung busi- ness man comes down with an ulcer- ated tooth which hangs on like a one- armed man at a club dance he re- fuses to allow any sleep to enter the house, thus making it necessary to engage a trained nurse who is ac- customed to sit bolt - upright for weeks at a stretch without uttering a Glink of any kind. There a ing more soothing than the entrance of a graduate nurse and her soft-roll shirt waist into a home from which sleep has been baiished by an able- bodied husband who has had the gal- loping tooth-ache and wants every- body in the block to know it. full length into a leather chair and sleep until she has a crick in the neck which follows her around for several days. The trained nurse is obliged to obey the doctor's orders and feed the patient medicine and run a spirit thermometer down his throat at re- gular intervals. As the average pa- tient, particularly of the male sex, soon develops a temper that would] raise blisters on a tin: roof, she is obliged to mix tact with the medicine |} and sometimes 'a brute force. It i This | enables a wearied wife to drop at}: English Parametta dou- ble texture, two-way collar. Sizes 34 to 46. BIBBYS MEN'S $12.50 SUITS Fabrics are peat grey cheviots. Cut in the popular three-button sack; good style, good making. Sizes a. 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